Data Science

In April 2022, the Virginia Department of Education approved the Data Science Standards of Learning to provide an introduction to the learning principles associated with analyzing big data. Through the use of open source technology tools, students will identify and explore problems that involve the use of data-intensive computing to find solutions and make generalizations. Students will engage in a data science problem solving instruction to interact with large data sets as a means to formulate problems, collect and clean data, visualize data, model using data, and communicate effectively about data formulated solutions. Students will use spreadsheets, CODAP and programming in Python as tools to organize and clean data, create visualizations, model, predict and analyze large data sets.